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1241 Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Neither the vegetation nor people in this book are entirely fictitious. But, reader, no person pictured here is you. With one exception. You, Sir, Miss, or Madam--whatever your country or station--are Albert Weener. As I am Albert Weener.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 435 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 691KB | 120,785 words | Posted:

1242 Sleeping Beauty and the Mechanical Jungle by Opal

In this broken futuristic world, the princess might have slept for too long, forgotten too much, lost too many limbs, trusted the wrong fairy mechas... and maybe, just maybe done something very wrong. Will she wake up from this nightmare?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Robots, Violence, Dystopian
Downloads: 291 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.34
Size: 27KB | 5,165 words | Posted:

1243 Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Edward Bellamy

A novel about a doctor who develops a method of eradicating painful memories from people's brains so that they can feel good about life again.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 155 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 175KB | 32,705 words | Posted:

1244 Breeder World by Ernest Bywater

A story in the Breeder World Universe
World War Three has come and gone, most of the world population are dead. The survival of the race is now at grave risk and society has changed beyond recognition. Learn what happened and what was done to keep the human race alive. - This short story sets the background for the rest of the stories in the universe.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Politics, Violence
Downloads: 2536 | Votes: 117 | Score: 6.32
Size: 14KB | 2,648 words | Posted:

1245 In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne

In the year 2889, people "consume food that is compounded and prepared according to scientific principles, and they breathe an atmosphere freed from the micro-organisms that formerly used to swarm in it; hence they live longer than their forefathers and know nothing of the innumerable diseases of olden times.". Rumours has it that nutritive air is yet to be discovered.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 216 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 32KB | 5,568 words | Posted:

1246 Poisoned Air by Sterner St. Paul Meek

Again Dr. Bird closes with the evil Saranoff--this time near the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in a deadly, mysterious blanket of fog.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 131 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 56KB | 10,613 words | Posted:

1247 The Rag and Bone Men by Algis Budrys

Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home--with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 373 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 15KB | 2,936 words | Posted:

1248 The Leader by Murray Leinster

The trouble with being a Superman, with Super powers, and knowing it, is it's so easy to overlook the unpleasant possibility of a super-superman!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 465 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 42KB | 7,509 words | Posted:

1249 The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime... but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years. Can Barrett survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear his name?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 592 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.27
Size: 254KB | 45,665 words | Posted:

1250 The Jilting of Jane by H. G. Wells

A little tale about a maid whose fiance leaves her for a woman of higher standing and how that maid deals with her jilting.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 290 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.27
Size: 14KB | 2,684 words | Posted:
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